Can the Selfie Generation Unplug?
A father and son raft down the Grand Canyon and hike in Joshua Tree, revealing the rewards that millennials can find in our most treasured places.
Source: Can the Selfie Generation Unplug and Get Into Parks?
Most bizarrely photographed architecture projects
Juergen Teller got everyone's attention when he posed naked on a donkey, but he isn't the only one presenting unconventionally shot architectural photography. We put a spotlight on 10 of the most bizarrely shot projects. While restrained compositions often make for beautiful architectural photography, it's the touch of playfulness that made these project so memorable. Concrete
Source: 10 of the most bizarrely photographed architecture projects
Lumiere the UK’s Largest Light Festival
If there ever to be another event in 2017...
See the city in a new light at Lumiere London, 14th-17th January 2016.
DEEP WEB - kinetic audiovisual installation and performance
Deep Web is a monumental immersive audiovisual installation and live performance created by light artist Christopher Bauder and composer and musician Robert Henke. Presented in enormous pitch dark indoor spaces, Deep Web plunges the audience into a ballet of iridescent kinetic light and surround sound.
Virtual-reality preview of Serpentine Pavilion
For those who can't visit BIG's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Swiss visualisation studio Archilogic has made a tour the building using virtual reality.
Video: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2016 by Bjarke Ingels
In this exclusive video, Bjarke Ingels explains how he used stacks of fibreglass boxes to create the undulating form of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2016
Mountainous landscape on the inside and cavernous canyon on the inside. Combining two mutually incompatible elements in architecture into a hybrid. Simplest element of architecture, a wall...pulled apart to create space on the inside
Unreal Engine 4 - »Infiltrator« - Realtime Tech-Demo zur UE4
Inspirational. Where architecture visualizations peaks with gaming.
The Art of Rendering
I remember seeing the first demo of GPU rendering before it really started to go mainstream, and my first thought was this is going to change everything. Specifically what the “purported” speed increases would mean to our business.
Source: The Art of Rendering: How Technology Will Revolutionize Architectural Representations - Architizer
Guardians of Time: Mystic Sculpture by Manfred Kielnhofer | Urban Ghosts
Modern humanoid sculptures previously reported include the commanding Angel of the North and the divisive iron figures at Crosby Beach near Liverpool. But they don’t come any more mysterious than the Time Guards (or Timeguards) by Austrian artist Manfred Kielnhofer, which have a habit of appearing abruptly in public places one day and vanishing the next.
LED-lit pigeons illuminate New York skies in art exhibit
Thousands of pigeons with tiny LED lights strapped to their legs swooped through the darkening skies in a jaw-dropping display of beauty, but savvy New Yorkers gazing up at the performance art knew enough to keep their mouths shut.
Source: LED-lit pigeons illuminate New York skies in art exhibit
EMIR TIGREL | UNIT 24
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Source: EMIR TIGREL | UNIT 24
Spaxels - 100 Dancing Drones
Hoertner and his team of 15 people called the drones, “spaxels,” a hybrid of “space pixels.” He said he wanted to show how drones, known to many as weapons, can be used to create beauty and socially meaningful experiences.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ-js5zn-I0[/embed]
Experiences not Possessions
"People are becoming really disenchanted with the rental market."
Source: Millennials want experiences not possessions say co-living entrepreneurs
Prism
Each panel of the sculpture presented a different live feed, from transport information from TFL, environmental data from CASA, to live energy usage from Carbon Culture.
Source: Prism | KEIICHI MATSUDA
Augmented City 3D
Pieces of information that swim around us all day
[embed]https://vimeo.com/14294054[/embed]
Source: Augmented (hyper)Reality: Augmented City 3D | KEIICHI MATSUDA
Augmented (hyper)Reality
synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise
[embed]https://vimeo.com/8569187[/embed]
Source: Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop | KEIICHI MATSUDA
Rent-Free Workspaces
To encourage local economic development, chambers of commerce in some cities, have been working with local government and businesses to entice entrepreneurs with free workspace the last few years. "We are going to see a lot more of these free spaces because the world of economic development agencies have just discovered these spaces and understand that it’s a powerful tool," King says.